Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely…”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn’t provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don’t specify.

  • Lit
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    16 days ago

    Hitler subscribed to vegetarianism.

      • @ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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        3710 days ago

        We need to step up our game. Quickly kill some white rich people, there’s nothing more evil than that!

      • coolusername [none/use name]
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        it’s cool that Mali is one of the Sahel states that’s rejecting imperialism and ML also happens to stand for marxism-leninism

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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        119 days ago

        “Tankies are a serious threat to domestic and international politics. Please ignore that only 1% of all people know what that is. Also let us actively keep a terrorist and retroactively remove their comments before it became news, because the FBI made us.”

      • Oniononon
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        109 days ago

        .ml user used whataboutism as taught by putins ministry of copeaganda. It’s not very effective.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          149 days ago

          The point is to show that anticommunists complain about Lemmy.ml like McCarthy, but it ended up being a Lemmy.world mod that committed Malthusian terrorism.

          • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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            49 days ago

            The point was that people complain about something going on in .ml but something unrelated happened with .world?

      • Maeve
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        39 days ago

        I can bet .ml is considered a bigger threat.

    • gaystyleJoker [she/her]
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      4010 days ago

      wtf? being a domestic terrorist is not against lemmy.world rules as long as you don’t do it on the site…

    • @markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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      129 days ago

      Man this will probably hurt the amateur chemistry community due to overreacting crackdowns, even though this is one guy who was part of that community and plenty of other people have done bombings without any interest whatsoever in amateur chem. I do think the community needs more moderation given how frequently I see dumbasses on reddit doing some extremely dangerous shit without realizing it, but this will probably get any discussion of fun chemistry banned everywhere.

    • ZephyrXero
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      1010 days ago

      Wow. Now there’s a bunch of people who should never have been born. Too bad they’ve gotta make it everyone else’s problem

        • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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          59 days ago

          attempted to ignite a large propane tank and set our ( pro profit detention center) buildings on fire"

          Spronsen said that “it’s time to take action against the forces of evil”, citing “highly profitable detention/concentration camps and a battle over the semantics”.

          Dude was a carpenter too. Is this what they call based?

        • @Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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          29 days ago

          That was quite a read. Going to need to watch some youtube on this but concerned it may lead certain names going up on “The list”

    • @FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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      129 days ago

      I disagree. terrorism and accelerationism are not needed and do more harm than good. The idea that you can just commit political violence and solve your problems is too tempting to angry people, who then believe that the actually successful tactics like organizing are not necessary. It’s taking the easy way out and usually just turns more people against you.

      Of course, violence to protect people from the violence of the fascists is entirely acceptable and to be lauded.

      • @Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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        199 days ago

        I think they’re joking lol

        Well, some adventurism seems to have some positive effect though. Look at how taking down the UHC pig is being received by the public. Could be used to radicalise some people perhaps

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      259 days ago

      I think I am a world user, it was just the top of a drop down menu when I created my lemmy. God damn it.

      • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        189 days ago

        You’ve got nothing to worry about. It’s the largest instance. There’s no particular stigma for users on it. Unlike there is for the more ideologically selected instances, like .ml.

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          379 days ago

          Lemmy.world is also ideologically selected, they deliberately defederated from the larger explicitly Marxist-aligned instances. Lemm.ee is an example of an instance that tries to be more ideologically neutral, .world is openly liberal aligned.

          • @Etterra@discuss.online
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            209 days ago

            It’s also run by Europeans so they decided to stomp down on discussions of jury nullification around the time somebody (I didn’t believe it was Luigi) ventilated that healthcare CEO’s head. Which is why I changed instances. Jury nullification is the last tool available to an oppressed citizenry to fight back against unjust laws and/or unjust applications of law.

          • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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            139 days ago

            They’re a huge instance most people joined by default. No one sane thinks a .world account means anything about the person posting under it, except maybe they just went along with the pseudo-default.

            You guys think there’s a big rivalry and anyone who hasn’t rebelled against the unjust persecution of the tankiest instances must have cast their lot in with the enemy, but in reality no one really thinks about it at all.

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              I don’t judge people based on their instance at an individual level, that’s not my point. Like you said, most on Lemmy.world picked it because it’s the largest instance. However, the moderation and admins do have an ideological bent, and over time this filters out users that don’t “fit in” with that, leading to an “average user” with views aligning with the average mods and admins.

              I don’t really care ahout inter-instance drama, it’s not that deep. But I do notice trends and I understand how soft-censorship works and how consent is manufactured. Plus, there are terminally online users on Lemmy.world that do see all Marxists as enemies and wish to take down Lemmy.ml, so that does exist, and is tolerated by Lemmy.world mods and admins.

              • @FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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                Then there’s me, who joined .world because it was the largest, is a Marxist, but has no idea how to even switch instances or access .ml where I would like to be 😂

                • turtle [he/him]OP
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                  Personally, I try to stick to instances that will only defederate from others if there are major, serious issues, like illegal content and what not, and that are also not largely defederated by other instances. That way, I get to have a more complete experience of Lemmy / the threadiverse without missing out on major chunks of it. I think it’s counterproductive that the majority of instances defederate major, legitimate instances, especially now that the Lemmy software allows each individual user to block entire instances if they wish to. This only serves to weaken the threadiverse as an alternative to other major discussion sites. It’s even possible for instances to issue default instance blocks on new accounts if they are worried about the new user experience, removeable by the users themselves if they so wish (like lemmy.zip seems to be doing).

                  The main instances that I’ve found so far that seem to follow this “defederation only as a last resort” philosophy are the following:

                  • lemmy.ml (although this one is a bit risky for this purpose because there is constant lobbying on liberal instances to start blocking it, despite it being the original and reference Lemmy instance)
                  • lemm.ee (my main instance, appears to have the second fewest defederations of other instances)
                  • lemmy.zip (they don’t defederate from much - third fewest out of this list - but I understand that new accounts have for instance hexbear and lemmygrad automatically blocked, which each individual user can unblock)
                  • lemmy.sdf.org (they defederate from the fewest instances that I’m aware of - the only defederation they currently have seems to be due to technical issues arising from a dead instance)

                  If you would like to keep contact with the broader range of Lemmy instances, these are the ones I would look into. You can check which instances any Lemmy site defederates from by visiting <site URL>/instances and clicking the “Blocked Instances” tab.

        • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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          I do think it would be better if people spread out a bit more though. I don’t believe it’s healthy for our communities to have any instance approaching “default” startus.

        • @Logh@lemmy.ml
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          I feel a little bit like I was duped by ml. Chose it because the devs were here, but I haven’t thought about the top level domain until I saw their profile pictures. Now, I’m no stranger to leftist views, but I’m pretty far from being ml. I might switch if things get ugly, but I can take some minor stigma for a while longer.

          • Cowbee [he/they]
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            You could also use it as a learning opportunity, explore Marxist thinking and viewpoints.

            • @Logh@lemmy.ml
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              28 days ago

              I have been exploring Marxist thinking deeply in the past but not for the past few years. True, it might be something to go back to sometime.

          • @Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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            .ml used to feel similar to .world in that it mostly indicated you just joined a pseudo-default, but it feels like it’s getting more ideological over time. The devs run two instances, .ml and lemmygrad, and lemmygrad was the explicitly Marxist instance, but since lemmygrad got defederated from some large instances it feels like some of those users might be moving to .ml so they can maintain access.

            I wouldn’t worry too much about it impacting your experience or what people assume of you in the near term. It’s still generic enough that a .ml handle doesn’t automatically mean something. It’s more like a confirmation when someone is already posting some extreme things.

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    6110 days ago

    “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely…”

    kills one and injures 4 others

    I got a funny feeling this guy doesn’t actually care about consent.

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    here comes the influx of fascists i guess?

    when they come looking for the dangerous hacker known as lemmy.world

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      309 days ago

      I mean lemmy.world aims to be Reddit 2, and reddit had jailbait, fatpeoplehate, the_donald, keeps Gamergate subreddits open, r/conspiracy, and so many more horrid things kept up because it made more clicks.

      So why wouldn’t lemmy.world keep an active terrorist on board? Think of the potential money to be made.

    • @masta_chief@sh.itjust.works
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      159 days ago

      We’ll have to push back with pointing to the decentralized nature of the fediverse, and that there’s gonna be crazies on some instances. I always use email as an analogy when explaining Lemmy, maybe we could continue that and argue you wouldn’t blame all of email infrastructure if an extremist had a gmail or Hotmail or whatever.

      Actually now that I read that, it just might be more confusing. But there’s gotta be a counter angle to argue to get ahead of people thinking “Lemmy=bad”

      • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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        Also even if the cops shut down world, people will just … move. Like yours and my instances don’t even have the word “lemmy” in the domain. I don’t think anyone would care beyond “we shut down that radical forum.”

        Though most likely is it goes completely unnoticed and some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

        • @meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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          some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

          Next week? Try last night in DC. I’m doubting this will even register tbh

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          It’s funny because even of the people I know, it’s actually like “lemmy=what?” Even of the people I’ve talked to about it.

          They’re so painfully disinterested, they usually tune out after the first five words of my fediverse elevator pitch.

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          It would not bode well for the future of discourse if lemmy.world of all places gets shut down for radicalism. Our instance is significantly more radical than lemmy.world. Can you imagine some ecofascist idiot who posted on slrpnk.net a couple times committing a terror attack and getting the instance taken down? I can, which is why this news should be very concerning.

          Edit: Just looked through some of the bomber’s comments and their replies and some users even pointed out that his rhetoric was reminiscent of ecofascism. Anti-natalism and ecofascism are ideological siblings. The backlash to this attack is going to catch environmentalist groups in the crossfire, with many environmental activists being accused of having anti-natalist views. Anyone who’s ever advocated for degrowth might get lumped in with them.

          • turtle [he/him]OP
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            28 days ago

            I agree, you have very good points. I don’t particularly think that him having posted for about a month two years ago on a particular instance is any particular mark against that instance, as I think that that could have happened to many (but perhaps not all) Lemmy instances. Good point about backlash hitting eco activists too.

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    Damn Axis.world made a domestic terrorist before Us

    I guess we cant call ourselfs the most dangerous instance anymore obama-sad

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    5010 days ago

    Yeah but see Hexbear is actually the violent extremist instance not the Rational Centrist instance of lemmy dot world. Or something I dunno I have a brain

    • @Zenith@lemm.ee
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      It’s the same thing that happened on Reddit when a childfree subscriber killed his kid

  • @Samsuma@lemmy.ml
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    509 days ago

    Fucking wild that Lemmy made it on mainstream news… of course it had to be some stormfrontian to get it to that stage…

    • Stern
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      If I had to choose between a bomber and something like r/jailbait (which was the medias first big look at reddit) as the sites big first exposure to the world, I’m going for the bomber every time.